Review of Game Night

Game Night (I) (2018)
8/10
Very entertaining! Inventive, funny, surprising, original!
18 May 2020
I saw this on a long plane flight overseas - I'd heard nothing about it. I do like Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, so on that basis alone, I picked it to watch. It began pleasantly - those two are actors I'm very happy to spend time with - and swiftly the movie became very funny and progressively more wild. Again and again, I was open-mouthed with surprise and delight. It's very funny - quite original - and ingenious!

Sooner or later, the versatile, charming, lovely Rachel McAdams will finally become a fixture at Oscars time - so fine in serious drama such as Sunlight, romantic movies such as The Notebook, very funny movies such as Mean Girls and something ingenious and wild like Game Night. She's really one of the best of her generation of actresses - fabulous!

I'd also like to see Jason Bateman in some more serious work - he's so wonderful in comedies.

You'll really like this - it's also suitable for everyone. One of the many appealing things about the movie is that you like the lead characters as much as the end of the movie as at the beginning - that's so untrue of many comedies made in the last 25 years.

Funny, surprising and charming!
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